Quote #31197
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Quote #20268
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Quote #16884
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature...
Quote #2236
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Quote #16396
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized...
Quote #17377
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify...
Quote #7111
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free...
Quote #31473
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very...
Quote #3230
And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and...
Quote #5521
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities,...